VBScript in a Nutshell

Appendix A. Language Elements by Category

This appendix lists all the functions, statements, and other keywords available within the VBScript language by category. The categories are:

Array Handling (Section 1.1)

Assignment (Section 1.2)

Comment (Section 1.3)

Constants (Section 1.4)

Data Subtype Conversion (Section 1.5)

Date and Time (Section 1.6)

Dictionary Object (Section 1.7)

Error Handling (Section 1.8)

File System Objects (Section 1.9)

Information Functions (Section 1.10)

Mathematical and Numeric (Section 1.11)

Miscellaneous (Section 1.12)

Object Programming (Section 1.13)

Program Structure and Flow (Section 1.14)

String Manipulation (Section 1.15)

User Interaction (Section 1.16)

Variable Declaration (Section 1.17)

Where necessary, individual keywords may appear in more than one category. Note that neither constants nor operators are listed here; the former are listed in Appendix B, while the latter appear in Appendix C.

Array Handling

Array Function	Assigns a comma-delimited list of values to the elements in an array
Dim Statement	Declares a fixed or dynamic array
Erase Statement	Clears the contents of an array
Filter Function	Returns an array of strings matching (or not) a specified value
IsArray Function	Indicates whether a variable is an array
Join Function	Returns a string constructed by concatenating an array of values with a given separator
LBound Function	Returns the lower bound of an array, which in VBScript is always 0
Preserve Statement	Used with the ...